Dragon Cottage Honeysuckle Cottage Richmond Cottage Rose Cott

The building comprises four adjoining cottages, likely dating to the late 17th or 18th century. Constructed of local stone rubble, it features stone rubble stacks topped with 19th and 20th-century brick and a thatched roof. The original layout incorporated a single-room plan for Honeysuckle Cottage, a two-room plan for Rose Cottage, a further room belonging to Dragon Cottage, and a two-room plan for Richmond Cottage within a projecting crosswing. A lateral stack projects rearward from Dragon Cottage, while Rose Cottage has an axial stack serving back-to-back fireplaces. Late 19th-century single-storey outbuildings originally adjoining Honeysuckle Cottage have been integrated into domestic use as a kitchen and service rooms. Until around 1985, the main block housed two two-room cottages on either side of a central axial stack. The building has been rearranged on several occasions. The exterior presents an irregular five-window front with late 19th and 20th-century casement windows, and a three-window front to the crosswing. Cottage doorways contain various 20th-century doors, with Rose Cottage featuring a thatched hood. The Honeysuckle Cottage doorway is located within the converted outbuilding to the right of the main block. Both roofs are gable-ended. Interior details include plain carpentry where exposed, and the roof space is largely inaccessible though bases of straight principals are visible at first floor level; those to the west of the central axial stack are of heavier scantling than those to the east, and two eastern fireplaces include brick, suggesting the eastern two rooms of the main block may be of secondary origin. Formerly known as The Barracks until the mid-20th century, the name is linked by local tradition to the Civil War. The four cottages contribute to the attractive group of buildings within the hamlet of Kingscott.